Mexico is a country with a high biological diversity because it is located in a region of great ecological, physiographic, and climate heterogeneity. Interactions of natural biological systems with the human activities of the region entail impacts on biodiversity. This is why it is a priority to assess the effect of human activities on biological diversity and on the good working order of the ecosystems.

Species extinction and ecosystem degradation are increasing; there are already different Mexican species that have been driven or hunted to extinction, and with the current trend, it is estimated that many populations and species will disappear even before they are known. It is also a priority to have a complete inventory of the genetic capital of our country.

The objectives of this project include assessing the effects of human activities such as, urbanization, tourism, agriculture, stock breeding, and mining on the relevant biological systems; studying populations that look fragmented in their distribution by the effect of human activity to avoid their extinction; studying changes in habitat quality, and in composition and abundance of species, especially sentinel species that can alert on how these changes affect the good working order of the systems and key species such as top predators which are the most affected by environmental anthropogenic factors; and finally studying exotic and invasive species generally displaced by human activities and which affect the ecosystems.